The evening world. Newspaper, August 31, 1914, Page 11

“Yeh sib eid ge 2 wey ~t The Evening World Daily Magazine. Monday. August 31,° 1914 A Complete Novel Each Week In The Evening World e ADP DADA PIOARDDAPASPPOPPOODPOLDPOODPOEPPLLOPEEODS ; ST ENBERG AFFAIR The Story of an American's Dashing Role By Ralph A, Goodwin' in @ Drama of European War Politics ‘ GDOODDHOODOPDDHODOOHGGHOODOHOCDHOGGOSGHOO DODHODDOGOHDOGOHDOHOESGDHGIGOAGHTN C OOO} 0 TOO OUD UOUOCOOUUDUOOOCOUUOOCUUOUL.} nyt ily . “Remember! I hold you responsible here set such store by, and he: . would have been dead wise to me— chugged across the bridge RN kai gn for the behavior of yonder fellow, band?" Lid F DUs- five see? It was ® slip-up, I'll get their noses and turned sharply Gomme CHAPTER I. Schaller,” he growled. “This Is not | "Her husband?” ejaculated Capt, What 1 want yet. And it will be a the drive. The guardsmen fell im i p= § ” ec! mi u /e a" At the Inn of the White Water. the end. You are harboring susy ctory. ully story,” deciared Platt, with « hind the machine in a close phi ’ clous characters at the Inn of tho | “Humpht you knew the Princess ‘fective eh. There were two women In the tor White Wate: Maria Thyra wasn't a widow, didn’t .,"! admire your perseverance,” said neau, and a child sat between them, “Very ood, Herr Captain,” re- you?" Captain Victory, slowly; “it would Victory turned sharply away and eet sponded the landlord, bowing tron\- “Why—er—yen, come to think of D€ more commendable in a better off down the hill again. Be cally, Ho then turned to his guost, cause.” “That's the mald who fooled me tiie” the host's inquisitive attention in almost any other dukedom; but fa 9 shabby a traveller presenting himself at an inn might have drawn S the landlord pf the Inn of the White Water, half way up the approaching with every mark of re- “She married Oskar of W. I'm Just earning my living. That's morning—with the princess long slope of the Stocnberg, was used to entertaining dusty and spect. “The most worthy Herr will about seven years a0. Aocsne what wo all do,” said Letterblair little Leva,” explained Ph road-worn tourists. Besides, the stranger had a certain air of authority, Platt, cheerfully, “You sell your “Notice those fellows, Captain,” not hold me accountable for this, I all accounts it was one of beg!" he sald, earnestly. “We are marriages for love that's happened im #WOrd to m master; T rell the produ in sore trouble—all here on the Stoen- this generation of royalty in Central Of my brain and py Tehan, the waiter, ushered him through the long, oak-beamed passage t added as he saw again the group the doll-like garden in the rear—the garden from the wall of which the . We've each peasants, berg. We are fe ie wae a the de- Europe.” ge to seniig sy Se oe noms give t ne see! es risen in haste. mountain rose directly, higher and higher, steeper and steeper, until it mands of hospitality have never be- “Well?” ie about accepting my seyarated and were now on Shed at the dry moat of the castle, ‘The caatle Tse, with tts Curreta and fore beon, Ignored by my inn —nor vit lasted Just long enough for ue timely asmatancet™ on YY them choughttuly 4a Ne appr h ot . - +4 sarcas' ‘ed - Rerivcntie wennuincee. in the air, as though having no stable founda father’a times, We Schallers have Plate. c prota over it,” grinned always possessed the White Water though tn hig! places, @ eav 5 age think better of than I did en ie Pence ead surged and’ Seaiil the"Prineta iy fats Pues de wrens Sow tte athe pete WA oat 5 4 " . a 0,” he t, too, rincess Marla ‘Thyra will never AD. young (ahe'e not twenty-five now), Johan caine then with the delayed by Jove! Her tignness ia well pre ad he fi jer ho! ae re tone Gina wk booty mistress repast and — later — ier looking at, Captain! . . ‘ . 9 row was arrived with a certain cobwebbed Ci long! laimed the “There will be an inquiry regarding «bout is @ mystery; but Oskar left bottle that was opened ceremonious- under hie brest ‘and mai this morning's work—nssuredly, It is one fine y and he hasn't shown ly; and its contents proved to be tween the waiting peasanta, true I must be responsible for the any particular desire to meet up worthy of the ceremony. Mr. Platt, There were a di —most este at my inn—I, Papa Schaller, a his loving wife since.” and even Jehan, had retired, and at brawny, black-browed fellows, fli the worthy Herr give me_ hii t cll,” repeated Capt. Victory, a question from the captain the inn- wore thelr gray peasant confidence that I may assure thor rowning now and more than idly keeper spoke freely of the disturbed with something of the alt of a who inquire that he is perfectly | nes in Platt's goasip. state of affairs on the Stoenberg. opera chorus, There was @ nocent of any—er—intrigue?’ fil how comes the part that ‘This is a small state and we are about thoir apparel, too, which ‘The stranger's eyebrows rose point- pon os this misunderstanding be- not a numerous people,” Papa Schal- out of keeping with their character edly at the last word, but he asked no tween two hot-beaded people uncom- jer sald, sadly. “It ia a fact that wandering harvester: uéstion. Indeed, he smiled—though mon,” pursued the newspaper 5 i" ™ Derhape Dit grimiy—and from Bis “At ‘the time of the Coan, Her Highness's friendship with Ber- There was but one small » “Sit here, Mein Herr,” murmured Jehan, dusting a round fron table, “The view is unbroken, Will Mein Herr have entertainment?” The guest gave his order, and sat down with an involuntary sigh of weariness, Ho was a tall, lean-flanked, broad-shouldered man, with thick light brown hair in which a streak the inn force, open-mouthed, into the o' gold showed bere and there as he yard. movi in the sunshine which sifted “Did you see him, Papa Schaller?” upon him through the leaves of the demanded one of the soldiers pati broadly-spreading trees shading the The innkeeper was a rotund little garden. man, with a fringe of gray bair His face was cleanly shaven save around his bald pate. He stuttered: for a golden mustache, the points of “What man?” and then stared at the which the Kaiser first affected. His single guest in the garden. was high-bridged and eagle- “A man ran this way—from the Ike; his eyes were blue, or gray—one castle,” explained the soldier, frown. Sorting to the wood GE thoir"awner, ing.at the placid guest.” . ing to the mood of their owner. Just now they were soft gray; but in oer tenes Gar unten red with a lin has kept us out of trouble more the group- Nttle, olive-ski tenet eee wallet dre ded document, was not really Grand Duke of Wolf- th: e But Stoenberg is : He tie, Haack he "Would' Oe fate Sond aed gi 1,8 wi Haat gy, ampers a ee Te Ganley ate Ot, lke alump of fmm tnd down, Beers and impei, eaunily Mack yen the moment that Austrian dog may looked like an Ltalian—not at all ‘The innkeeper bowed humbly. When Hoer army when the old duke died.” awake and gobble down the dolicious 3 head cast aquick eye over the paper , “Indeed!” muttered the listener, tidbit!” Baan laine: Le area ae the his manner became even more humble, Dut without looking at the American. “and yet your princess married @ others wore stolidly await! “Pardon!” he exclaimed. “I should PE ret aa sald Platt, ‘there consort who was under Austrian in- proach of the pringeer's 1aote have known the Herr Captain was of bpd gos A rn—this little Princess quence?” suggested Capt. Victory. the cavalcade of borsemen th my. Attached?"—— ine ra pow 8 rey ped crea- = “God knows!" cried the old man. followed it. attached — at present,” mur. ture of six youre, Maria Thyra 4id The Grand Duke Oskar is as inde Victory and the newspaper mured the other, and the landlord, nna er husband's fem- pendent a man as our princess is ® went on, perhaps for twenty foldiug the paper reverently, returned M ne ve expected. Bhe woman, In those days Wolfenholen Then the former stopped short 2 it without further comment. Jehan pl ) you understand, was between the fire: Stoenberg stride and smote a clenched fist upem rh = 48 an officer swung into the I believe you!" grunted the tour. Wc tal tea fat, with an emphasis that the old post cf the White Watered the Waiter did not understand. The officer wi ; “, asa hi vA stranger in our land, perhaps?” true Teutonic typ Wh ole ne o ij have never seen the Stoen F® air and bullying carriage. His’ ab beset 4 admitted ret guest. “It 18 eye swept the group in the garden poy omit te the home of Princess Maria instantly marked the guest at tho ta- Thyra of Stoenberg and of her little we whom Jehan was setting daughter, Princess Leva—God bless 4 here on this mountain; she’s a much- ve is that the man, Hoel?” the of- and a maid servant had already % wi and ts, Her peo) are more the other palm. Widlumphi" muttered. the stranger fcer Gecandet, striaieg toward the . cleared up the itter of the Ca Marre aden thing” weat on the 10%, Termany to-day, than for Aus: Tl” ‘be muttered, ‘i 4 : le, but speaking to the old guards- DO KNOT MAKE THe luneh table. 7 ria. It is @ pity the two States— =. Sorants ct the catioet one Ae. Orsawing Gowns 2 ‘The iandiord turned away, much Philosophical Platt, “in most royal Stoenberg and Woltentiolen—could ning” te ite in my linge Jehan answered a call from the inn, do not know, Herr Captain,” was pleased, driving his helpers before him. ana rie ae only pawns, But not be ruled in harmony.” “And I'm not sure that it d est was left alone in the the gruff reply. “I saw him but for a But the stran, was not left ieee & peek Med hae arent was ever “Which would have been the ca gaiq Victory, looking down toon 4 garden. At hand, within the touch Meeting instant; otherwise my bullet and each holding—an empty riding labaloo?” pursued the parently alone, ‘There skipped into thi Farten toed te creh Le bord be bad your princess an husband pewspaper man grimly. “That Fs er vid dugers, is he viretehae out i Taian gasbet’ wk tipi Phos Rt: newlycawakened guest “What, ts foe the passage, 2 moet won at least 10 these states, For lately the ‘Prine poctdl i iyrte me Vier. hy was that?” fellow DAC there ee oe a Mop ee arm, 's the wall between the garden e! Die. PS =Hoehgnd the other reappeared upon th: doubtable friend, Herr little mi ” . by pocket ion a ar Te highrord. The yard was Schaller bustied forward. “What does the sere and, saluting voo Boldt, the Capt, von Holdt?. What's doing, old @ pert of the recent fracas trom the cons Leva has become a Possibility.” “Whe las Victory: ss head. “Who ‘sauwe Phat tate ved with flagstones worn smooth it mean?" he cried. “This gentleman the tread of generations and by 18 our guest, Capt. von Boldt. water. Beside the table a bricked ‘How long has he been here?” de- Herr Cartain.” Sy a cat they K hae culvert was laid under the wall to manded the officer suspiciously. on Boldt found bis volce again. “I e stranger 8 pcos Oe carry off the water when the yard ‘He has just arrived. Am I not now it, you fool!” he shouted. “And the little man first epoke; bu ; “A what?” demanded the listener, knows?’ he groaned. ‘Two obstinate is bane ann balcony. ase Piatt showed nel- J0King Un for ag instant, ing people. A lovers’ quarrel, per- "wo.a” Traliany r, hetuarhiatr, Platt sno ‘A. Posalbility,” repeated Platt, with haps’ Nobody to heal the breach for fe ie,” declared the mae. ther (ned the stranger seated und emphasis. "The male heir of a branch them ere it grew too wid dit hag & Pussied tone. “His name is 5 And it Indeed, he grinned, his lit- of Duke Oskar’s family bas died. been harder on the grand duke than He won the sesond prise in the iJ f ‘m in @ ‘nobody in the ground- fellow? Need any Look ae was flushed each morning. right, Jehan?” cried the innkeeper. — this fellow knew it too—pig!” He iving no hostage to fortune and took ary nee twinkling and his bristling Sraiea aka tae core child in that on our princess until of late, He loved pee coe boro On the other hand the steep, rather , “Within the hour,” sald the waiter, spat out the epithet and lunged at Do chances with the treacherous mustache agitated by hie Inaudible eva is the sole offepring of Duke °%p to be showing his love Very devil of a ) wildly grown hillside ascended from finding his voice. the stranger with bis bared sword. Von Boldt. ‘amusement. Without as much as ay Princess Leva u.ay never be in eee fashion,” sald the have called bim by @ Sitting the very top of the wall to the Meanwhile Von Boldt and the with a skill which should h His gaze returned to the captain of your leave,” he pulled & chalr tote of considerable importance herself; tain, “They tell me he is ame, Plate” heights above. The whole hillside stranger were measuring each other. warned the thick-skulled officer, t! the guard at once. Perhaps, how- opposite side of the table ont Rg but if rries some day, and has ety . ‘the child.” “Good heavens!” ejaculated for , although there were A little frown marred the guest's stranger avoided the thrust, but ever, he noted the shine of the Amer- ¢ropped into it, stretched out @ son, that son may oocupy the throne ‘Not Duke kar!” cried the olf “An Italian chauffeur in the ‘ Jawna cleared here and the! brow—a puzzled frown. He seemed to stepped nearer. The cane whistled in ican revolver in the hand of the man {o his vis-a-vis. of Austria!” man eagerly, “Those who say that of a Stoenberg peasant, waiting ‘yellow ribbon of path follo’ be trying to recall pomathing elusive the air and its stroke left a white welt on the balcony, and the implied warn- —~oiq gchaller says you call yours could be no doubt of Capt. are not wise—they neither know the on roadside for the ‘of perpentine windings of the mountain as he watched Von Boldt. je latter, across von Boldt’s infl. ied cheek. ing in the man’s further words WS sei¢ Capt. Max Victory. I'm Letter- rf now, He was tap. duke nor are acquainted with the cess and her child, torrent. The inn of the White Water, assuring himself of @ fact, sald again §=‘The gabble of peasant voices in the not to be mistaken. blair Platt, special correspondent of with bis aa 4 rey] politics of Wolfenholen,” ie something afoot! ‘ with its little garden and linen drying to the guardsman: background ceased with a simulta ‘The brand of German the man on the New York Transcript, I'm cor- go out sere; How eo?” asked the otber, curl- Bi? Comat Med. Vic E, And ite outbuildings, was & Hit Breen dare ig Ast dhs Aas cory peel of breath, The stranger the balcony used was atrocious, Th respondent-at-large, facts ike @ ,. “YOU seo, I've got most of the par- ously. the little man by the shoulder #0 that! eut out of the mountain estate o' 3 ‘, ¥ ad lea into the position of the women of the inn began to giggle. dering up ticulars,” continued Let ot the unfortunate misunder- hy, id not wheel in his a noble proprietors of Stoenberg. Von Bodlt approached the table and Bact ‘duelist—lett hand. behind Weidentiy the American was e stand: famous character In Holy Writ. Letterbiair an stanly “pevween cue princess ana tracks, There was a wing of the castle, its fauriees iy gare Sm upon it, mak- Picy', cht leg forward and bent at “Who are you?" roudly, “It's @ big story. Pyidentyarlth thom: they were by8: "and on the same errand, Mr. Prony, Tt Nein it The house the duke, be has travelled much. Hie Compees yourseit aa xed bluntly. the knee—and the astonished and terically amused. Even Jehan looked Platt?” queried ue captain, ign of Duke Oskar is known to be under people have seldom seen him. His the captain with emphesia. ¢ aekecrowed. it tightened on-lookers beheld the up, his leathery old face cracking in the proffered hand, | a aevour— Austrian influence; Princess Maria, state is governed by his cousin, Baron outer corner a tower, which was Co’ $rr with Ivy—a black green ma: | look back and tell me how many peo hich cll but hid the iron barred wi The stranger's 6: thaevellof'a man with 6b! ‘ih “geeking whom Thyra is G Me tha baanto y he carries matters with @ ", -hobcp oe ly a wooden & Smile. 4 lookea yyra is German to the ne, Gaunt, whe ca there are in that car. fows. This ivy wall overhung the was then his eyes changed from Moy sand fencing In deadly earnest with “It is Herr Blatt," he satd en?” rejoined Platt. Then ve hand “If her grandehild should ever be. high hand. The plot the Herr Cap. Pen tne “princess's au ditch. Just under the wall—on to steel. Ho was instantly as angry Win’ ooecnist armed with a sword! _‘"Thore you go again, Jehan!" ejac- rather ruefully from lmperturbable come the Emperor of Austria he tain has heard of against the peace easneq Piatt. hear sido of the moat, of Course—wa8 yy man or brute would ever gee him. | an autagonies armel with & we mow ulated the American. “Do mind your on the tite to 1) 'lWnats the might be too much of a German to of mind of our princess was Batched feigned carslessness. a plantation of low trees and shrubs: 1 am a traveller—throug S00) | Viner caution nor’ decency. He P's if you can't your q's, You talk face of Vie foP rant it clean?” he sult the notions of either the Aus- by, the baron, » the driver on the front eat. pve portion, Ot thin a few vente, but rormuege province nade the sneer jy in apa, In at his ad, Uke @ sheep! Lettorblair Platt, if of ee trians or their political leaders, “You apeak confidently, old man.” 20) ti6 guard behind”-— een, cleared wing up await, [twas ea,cumueee Seinky, NER Denead wiih cherwates TRE eee neL UR asked. now better than L” was the “How would you go about making *8id the other gravely. “Exactly,” interposed the cai “IT know whereof L speak,” declared Theonly patch of second growth in the PUMEUY ane, Mein Horrt” ex ingstick—and with consummate \qiybcldt recovered his voice, «| piunt reply. a good Austrian, Herr Captain?” asked “Somebody. lacks foresight up t ” “y, Yes! a fine young rehs ‘ s Have you any knowledge of this PUN rey. 4 1, anger, though for Platt, grinning. "You would go back Papa Schaller at the cast midst of the great, forest Mojon of claimed Von Boldt: fiercely, wha skill. Suddenly the latter caught affair, Herr Platt?” he demanded. "moment™ chagrined, ‘If he WAS ax far into his ancestry as porsible to man wan the Hiead Duke 0: TE 9 whic! n y 4 is oy the point of the officer's sword in his ‘What affair, Captaim?” asked the ty thick-skinned, he did not lack jogin—eh? That is the idea exactly. has sat here where you ort ti bush,” whispered the the Stoenbers. eq TeAson—do you question me?” was the 10.7. “sna before Von Boldt could American calmly curlous. roa eof mind, ‘He understood {f It is possible ti eon honored me by drinking ® captain, "There ts nobody. with the: I ae ea «jee Bn he saw InstAN’ POLAT cutated the cap- retreat the stranger struck so shrewd “A rascal was loitering about the Septain Victory’s meaning. of this little Le govern the the same old vintage. A splendid man . e) nh child who can protect her—the 5 castle, He ran down this way”’—— We" be for Austrians, the p be wish —Dbig as yourself, Hi Captain, wit! ae CTS ages “5 Hein of pee Seat Give ana: tis Crewtaly onion Var he pn oe “I saw nobody running save in my Pelikan Me maid, easly. to train ‘and control the princess. & great, bushy iheeon though he was four has hi reaci far away was it that the report of count of yourselé. We da agt question his weapon, which clattered to the Sq nme, reored, Pitt eee auey “im undér obligations to > you for the Dive seer" nitted Cant: Victory, “PnIS Monty ee iocg ago?” asked main highway and turned down the gun did not reach his earm lor travellers here tor ae io pavement. an infernal clatter down there I WAY you t, “Now, H tain, we get down the other softly. + The Siac! : some, seconde—then the keen move: it fulfilled al oeiiere' aald the Quick as tt is told the stranger would have been dreaming yet Feady up, yonder Jo bom looked to tho scandal," aald the newspaper "Seven years, Herr Captain. Tt was as, the cal, approscued ‘ne, te fe oe ie tke dry branch broken pee Or tity, Heater eae. the seized upon the sword, caused it to “It is true,” murmured Jehan. “Herr Nhe he ‘ranted to @hoot you,” and man, rolling a’ fren cigarette. “An when he ‘came to espouse our lovely eee ante ee ate oe aaa Between, the bands. atranger, coolly: cer T assure you,” Whistle in a circlo about his head, Blatt was not to be disturbed this Pinte ‘nodded at the balcony over attempt has been made to kidnap PRACT | victory shook hin head. flung down their agricultural ‘And then, with quito amazing sud- Herr Papa Schaller tried to oll the Goyal ne Lowe es +e Hortercr] Myon Boldt shrugged his shoulders, bead. “L see Bees at es wae Sh as Rept raised startled eyes “A man may change much im seven and crowded into the road In In Bom ain in the Seer captain Von Boldt,” he said, Dench the wall. "There, with bin His faco, with tho livia welt across but it” wnat ny cue to get into again—and they were steel-blue. years,” he anid slowly. _ eagerness to eee the princess ” " ” daughter; #0, wary of accident, te as it, was not pleasant to look upon. ith the castle guard.’ hat's straight,’ | ae ene wildly. Te disap getdoi* for some time, YOu arein'put- penting--but with the scornfulmile 4 7We, waste tme here.” he growled. onwhwat I did for you did on,tm- noticing, but ttle ‘the captain's sur: CHAPTER Ul. Sanat Nine the Seen oii) rr " 5 , » “Im- . "Some! ‘umble: ball, \ almost at once like ® feet er—some person guilt on his lips and the light of BI ‘hon he glanced at Tapa schale 14 the other, Smuide, What though, and. the kidnapping didn't The Ambush. fellow on the side of the road n—as the man dived castle grounds? je glanced at Papa pulse isn't often a wise # + from the chauffeur, leaped inte SiS toremont down & steep declivity ye could not be he Gye maetnmeds H oubte. arty cut of this, were you doing up there at the ne pace oun enouiar Atiatnne wit HH winding bighroad which Cor and peined the startled driver i glared at the inn ald, You welcome castle face a} passed the Inn of the White the collar. The brute 1 ro “ » what jon GQ wheel an bates themeone, ‘two, three, "“ABsasibiy this man has seen the fox The Point of Mystery. sanlh, ond bis syee sparkled angrily: Datience to listen, Til reel 1% off. “You see, now, why Stoenberg te the say ase ore ald roc: tis Oecenie aes tl men in dark habiliments and running?” A What say?’ P ¥ shou! black, satanic-looking man >} jm d to follow the four guardsmen ",, ” these guards are so wideawake; why ber side of the hunte- ‘The stranger shrugged his shoulders HERE followed a long mo- #tarte 3 ‘The day is long,” replied Capt. ‘There, upon the othe! into the chauffeur's place, He ere was thelr quarry? and turnéd to his lunch on the table, | ment—a space of tense in- {Mrough the Oakebeamed Passage f9 victory simply. that bully, Von Boldt, acts like & bear tain, the road made an @aay home under the wheal. ‘The guns. a, g anger in the ag though he had no further Interest est while both the peas- “True for you. I'll smoke up and 4 , between the princess's attendant had net | Fiasten ement the lower courses in the affair. Johan, his serving In. tutry and the guardemen Grewien che man with give It to you straight,” and he pro- $0, fell On Say EAR Bho colnes bare Sod ones ee se, scythe away when tho car leaped abead a ‘hill. There appeared on the stinct working mechanical Nanas tbat stared in amazement at something?" ceeded to roll himself a cigarette. Thatta why ve got you beat,” added STass¥ though shot from a gun. the running fugitive again to pick up the fallen napkin. Kill—his dare- tendered his weapon, with a “Do you Indulge?” Platt asked. Platt, winking. “I've, been’ here a Valley of the Ober. The attack was in every So Fetalons flight not stayed, but ntly put a foot on the cloth. the hice iiemniey seer aly “Veo. toasting walla eit. fet Capt. Victory drew forth his own PIAtt Winking iow my business, As the two pedestrians came down successful. The big man Mtood Honieg j 4 d- 1 je £0 i Senate aon e8 the 9a, HO ee BO he 0 Coat elie wutved tho wrist of his sword “Were I your prince, I would deprive case nad it oy Cigar, meanwhile scri- Tye" evan tried to get an Intorview the bill they saw beside the road a forward part of the car, wat the newspaperman critically, Bere ce and the chia. Mar ie; ff huntsmen. they by appetite of a hungry man. hand, glaring at the adversary who you of a fivteoy Leer gd palter Platt ected ‘a blue mist and began win Bee shee Riiscame Tenea group of peasants with reaping hooks the noes, Sas the che rei bs eagerly conversing, ono sighted Nothing could have been raze von stood now so gallantly planted to went’ wha the stranger's caustio “You see, ent Can—and let it go at that tad raken, ‘There was @ bubbling weapons more formidable than eap: ‘ee once Bf ve'plunged into the Boat thane this matcude ef wie er BAe tain of the guard Orne. i ar mane" age broke condition of the Working. classes of “But your business this morning spring nearby, and the party seemed ing hooks, separated Von Boldt once le Suddenly the captain Tho guardsman’s rage re- ' stranger, He strode around the ; D Ise ight face the inn s yh! fm broad daylight, e&?” 4o that he m tered ‘aptain, my paper sent tered an oath and reached for the straint again the great United Btates with the peas- Up there at the castle?” queried Capt. to be lunohing; yet Capt. Victory his six guardemen trom the sales it, mutters \* ‘ look, tne Car. To fire at t ow ° ial antry of the 6 monarchies’ of Victory, with a stern eas looked upon them with curious fe rie the precious lives of the gu ied by the nearest guards- Whoever you are—you devil—you i That's 1 said Platt. ‘T’'ve got rec! the observer, grimly. shouldering Jehan aside, wages from me again,” he swore. me tentness as he drew near. cess and her child, If Von Boldt b. see, Oe rush “ibow othe Then. tees fot a apkin' on sthe aC hey Gir rte a os oe ohare ia may card. T demand satis- I got a line on some hot my story —every detail but one It ts ing in the bru erack!! T ma es ge ‘thi fas ineult”—— scandals in 08 ‘em t. I want it.” “Do you know these people, Platt?” not ogether t rr it". nda! high plas and sent ‘e importan' al considered him, he certainly macwel). Tre inst Hashes into bs a it tH bt he ponent without question a not Fane Be Ee ge the bit of pusteboard in to the Sunday sheet. They made hat im it?” asked the captain, he asked of the American, who had ‘ed him, rta! was ‘geen on the hillside vert, “ at's 8 Ww) rw iss was capable of grappling with thie the stone coping, 'Hé whipped his sword from ite Schaller started forward, shouting: into the other's hand. The strange good, So my commission was ex- and there much curtosity in his elected to accompany bim when he a , @lid across the sto q A baer * gency. J “ Ci ind what you ce, but tore tended, and, as I say, I've been wan- tone. , . It was to- 3 . aropped into the garden. The gcabbard and, entangling ite point in sates vette nik je pdr 216 not give It ® FlAnon. OU Ort ae tended, and, aa 7 ny. Turough, these "I wanted to know the ‘cause of ®t forth from the Inn. Not a shot was fired. Latterblair {i c d the heat of the day Platt had reached behind him; to stand behind the the napkin, jerked the linen aside, xt ) Von Boldt's feet. little backwoods kingdoms, picking up the quarrel between the princess and ward evening an tie aah treo which shaded The boots were reveale so sure as orer PAY By oy Heed Hutter te oc fight with n coward,” he nuggete of gossip in high life, That's the Grand Duke Oskar, Do you see? was past. Tho traveller had firmly before, Bit toad Hamas could ‘and was unseen, The round oath he uttered brought quarter-day, There tte you said, shrugging his shoulders, and why I'm here at the Stoenbers On that hinges the entire romance of refused to sojourn with Papa (Bona Upon tbe butt of the, big revel ar, X The fugitive was not a large man, a smile to the stranger’ ut brawling at my inn—an ¥ 9 turned his back on the bully. “And what ts your particular bust- the thing—it 1s the balance wheel of jer, being minded to pass the pigs Fivtery bea disermed hee and he was badly frightened. A lit- his eyes did not smile. He laid down pegan, The gentleman made ni Von Boldt's fury well nigh ness at Stoenberg?” asked the other, my story. Without it there will be the hotel on the southern bye gor The motor cars firat leap \ tle man in a panic of terror ia apt his knife and fork and looked straight quarrel—and he was unarmed in the yi As he stamped acri Hatening idly. a fatal defect in the art of the thing. “Not I! declared the Dewape ae rhe molt Care. fae e Wrigok much like a cornered rat. This into Von Gushed face. He beginning.” den he cast his inflamed eye "Never heard of the trouble be- {t l#-1 bet @ cooky!—some little man. ‘They may be harv % to glance im the direc- f the 1 tween the Princess that all these folks thing, something of small importance. their way from one village to an- abreast of the newspaper individual, too, had a pointes nose, did not delgn Perhaps it was the point o the innkeeper. m gireamt of cot Scere a thin, bristling mustache, an black, tion of the culver’ Ive cre little landiord’s last phrase which But 1 must have the fact,” sighed other. "tne - t eyes that roved ‘The captain gave an expli “Nothing else will do for my “It je early for barvesters,” mur- and was facing down trrinkling Pan Papprehensively, while der over his whoulder to the guards, recalled Von Boldt to @ better mind. mide lptain. "And there ave Af the car flashed t he in. cheat-racking Hoel and another charged nolsiy He turned from Hoel and let the fun Why don’t you ask somebody who no women in the company. ral. A atride-—a lea) breath came through tho covered passage of the alone, At that mom too, a new Ar Y G A Awa for Vacation? knows} demanded Capt Victeey, "at bis coeapanion' sion was chlline honulae Chast fe tee a The fugitive darted across the inn, The others drew near and saw actor appeared on the scene—rather e Tou UO) ng y A lighting his clear again. not fixed on the group at the road- big man turned to grapple with oo yard and dived into a dry eul- the telltale boots at which the cap- upon the inn balcony which over- San ay Suna SREY UREN “Yes, Hasily said. Who knows? ode, There was a stir above at the but caught the butt of the acy IEE ar vat ees \\Thbre "was a shout when old Hoel looked the garden. When you go out of town for vacation you may find it fs diff} Why. che priors herself—and the castle entrance which, from where be In Victory’s hand directly over above ip the br an © : ‘ sal ij duke, ‘The princess I can't get at; and and the captain stood, was plainly temple. He crumpled into the fhe crash of footsteps. kt TORCLOT $9 Oe Oe fle Von article, Bo0d, CO eae ec aaal cult and costly to provide yourself with the right sort of reading} ‘ho iuko-who knows: where he ia? visible. ‘The two-leuved” iron gute of the car and pied nto ‘The guest of the inn went back to . , just as & quartet broke but not brittle. As the guardemen @ small man with a sharp nose and 6 Brouxh ine fringe of bushes above flung themselves upon the boots his q thin, bristling mustache. His den wall, hand gripped the cane until the on aime man in the garden saw that knuckles turned white, and his eyes Fight hand bung at Dis side, as “The princess's maid—her chief figure at their head whom the ob- “Drive on, Signor E ! servers did not fail to recognize. make the mistake of slowing By subscribing to The Evening World for the rest of the summer ° you will secure a complete novel each week. Not some old book a] woman whom I have met and got "Your friend, Von Boldt,” grinned and follow my instructions ex ‘They say he is a wanderer; hi was open and the hollow tramp of lessly trampled upon him, he turning {t and scattering tableware voice. matter. dom {8 governed by prox rita nn the bridge over the moxt Victory slid into the seat beside af En ait on, eran Dimaelt ne and food across the flagging of the A man had stepped from the win- Why send to the city for novels at $1.25 or $1.50 each or buy} int there Is another," declared Lat- reached thelr eurs at even this dis- little driver, whose beady eyes flashed ‘| wehighly-pollshed boots were plainly yard. dow of one of the chambers and in 1 them at a fancy price in some country store? terblair Platt. tance. wickedly behind the dust goggles Bg visible at the mouth of the culvert. The stranger leaped up; in his hand shirt and trousers and still stifling Y 1 if with the best, ost delightful summer “A third person knows the nature Victory, too, turned his gaze up- had slipped on, i 6 captain = The guest carelessly dropped his nap- was tho cane he had carried when he a yawn, looked down upon the group Ou can supply yourse ie best, mi 8! of their quarrel?” asked Captain Vic- ward, A little cavalcade crossed the his weapon aga’ nat tl . | kin, covering the telltale boots com- entered the inn- @ slender wand, stiff below with pin-point eyes. He was reading for six cents a week. tory, In some surprise. bridge~aix uniformed riders with @ clan's riba, commandin, 1 | tendant, She is a@ middle- on saw that knuckles turned white, and bis eyes though he carried something heavy | Country dealer has not been able to sell, but the finest up-to-date fiction | fi," °Mur ne fatal Yact thin morning: ae the tate al Ant the princess ‘a ee he tonite 4 Fee oe cnidiers, Srerhaps, of the from good to leok upon, ae ae ‘a it) Dab AC sae Belg below hie Fall: by the foremost living authors. T'was to meet her early. She didn't out for an airing. I wish I dared “Yes, Your Sxcellency,” ges : SE oa ee rae a cterter tyne Visible to those beneath, Bear this in mind, not only for yourself but for any of your friends} *0,n2 but the euarin IG, try to IMSTOM oiiniag car appeared “Keep on in that direction for’ a sily down trements making w clatter out among the onlookers, ‘The guards. 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